The Lost Brother

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Summary: very well written crime/mystery w/racial politic overtones
Review: in this novel, rick bennett has written a very well done crime fiction/whodunit. though there are overtones throughout the book of race relations in present day america, they are incorporated into the story in such a way that they add to it instead of distract(they are not preachy, and bennett never much takes sides. his characters take sides, but he doesn't.the jist of the story is that a famous D.C. prosecuter is murdered and it seems to be the work of a white supremacist group. the prosecuter is black, in an interracial marriage(his wife is also murdered) the head of the white supremacist group hires a detective to try to prove that his organization had nothing to do with the murder. at the same time, the dead man's brother, fresh out of prison for murder himself, decides to find out what he can also. they both find, seperately and together, that there are no easy answers in this investigation, rather that there are implications all the way up to the highest levels of power brokers in D.C. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!